Summary: Multi-Path Selection for Multiple Description
Encoded Video Streaming
Ali C. Begen and Yucel Altunbasak
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332­0250
Email: {acbegen, yucel}@ece.gatech.edu
Ozlem Ergun
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332­0205
Email: oergun@isye.gatech.edu
Abstract-- This paper presents a new framework for multime-
dia streaming that integrates the application and network layer
functionalities to meet such stringent application requirements
as delay and loss. The coordination between these two layers
provides more robust media transmission even under severe
network conditions. In this framework, a multiple description
source coder is used to produce multiple independently-decodable
streams that are routed over partially link-disjoint (non-shared)